Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-15

as q Juror from inns ulSlIlCl HIS pecu CAeuH
ed from serving.
Mr.. Francis Brcnglc publishes his card
requesting the republican nomination for
the States Attomcyship,
Mr.. NJ. G. Cramcr leaves this morning for
Philadelphia to attend the Centennial and
to buy goods.
WELL, Well! shoulder Scarfs, evening
shades - Ross, let us have two half:past-
scycn and one quarter.to-cight, mellow tints.
Crcagcrstown intends to get up glass ball
shooting match; we are going to take Charl-
ey Root and Doc. Lcatherman and go down
and clean 'cm mp.
We have dead shot in our town who goes
out with cat rifle and B 3 cartridges for
birds and gets them too. Ofcoursc he takes
a rest but so does the bird, every time.
His name is VIM. Hcttcry.
ScnooLHousE RoBBED,--One night last
week, the schoolhousc at Logs was broken
into by thief, who ramsackcd the room and
forced the locks of the desk. A clock and
some blank books We're stolen.
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A life membership in the Frederick County
Agricultural Society costs $50. The sale of
annual memberships has been discontinued.
All its troubles are now over and they are
working with will for success this fall.
BALLOON AsCENsIoN.-On Saturday the
Moravian Sunday School of this place will
hold picnic in Blacks Grove, The attrac.
ton for children will be the balloon asccns-
ion, which will take place after tho exercises
at the stand in the afternoon. There is prom
Use of a large attendance.
The excursion season is nearing its end and
the picnic season has about exhausted itself.
Next Saturday and possibly the next and
then the summer spccialtics will have seen
an end and then with the elections over and
Thanksgiving passed, we will begin TO antlc-
ipatc the main Holiday festivities.
The Frederick County Agricultural Socic'
ty is now Strengthened out and its managers
are working together with will to the end
that they may have great fair this fall
They have reduced the grand stand charge
from IS to 10 cents. Applications for space
in the different departments are coming in
large numbers and there is promise of large
exhibits.
Our size protected us. (?) That is what
man of much avordupos told one Of our
ncichbors. who SO reported it, Now that
frai partition in our Office was not protect.
ed by its frailty from that man of much av.
oirlupois, when in his CONSERVATION at hav-
ing swallowed his bulky self, whole, he rush
cd, not upon us, but upon that trail parti-
ton.
Hit? Hit nothing! He'll not even hit
re election and the new Owens Crcck, Bridge
won't fix il.
A CYCIoNE.--The storm that passed over
this section on Wednesday last, at places
partook Of the nature Of cyclone, although
we cannot believe that II was vcliahlc 49,
clone of the electrical species.
This one we believe found its motive force
in the conflicting currents OF air alone; the
tremendous energy and the electrical phr-
nomcna of the Simon-purc cyclone not be
ing reported in this instance.
Its presence was first noted in the local
ity of Paync's scl,Uolhouse, two and one half
miles north of this place; the gable end and
roof of this building was demolished, the
school beng in session Il, the time.
1t passed eastward down Little Owens
Creek and blew down fences, Frustrated the
corn and in Mr.. AMam Roddy's and Mr..
Calvin IIammctt's orchards up-rootcd
number of trees. The plaincst evidence of
tho character and force of the storm is shown
in The twisting of the ton of strong giant
of n beech tree on the farm Of Mr.. Hammctt,
this tree top was twisted off and thrown
from the tree. An appalling darkness pre-
vailed for several minutes; this We believe
is one of the characteristics of storms of "A
cyclonic nature. No person was injured ;
the escape at the schoolhousc was a narrow
one.
PEnsoNALs.-Onccu upon IA time, shortly at
tcrwc cssaycd thctaskof conducting country
newspaper, we determined to follow Prcntiss
advice to a newly flcdgcl country editor to
"put in p-;nt NJ least once year, the name
of every man, woman and child in the com
munity;" we even determined to do better
than this and topublish every arrival, except
those strictly upon business bent. We sue.
cectcd very well in the home list, but the
rock upon which we split was the personal.
We did well enough for while owing to an
apology, which we kept standing, to the ct-
feet that naturally, at first, VIC would miss
some, but that eventually we should get the
hang Of the thing and then every visitor
would be honorcd Ivy our notice.
Now, the Fatcs did not favor us, and week
after week We had our list revised after the
paper was published and in every instance
some such intimatlon accompanied the rcvis-
ion, as that "of course zoe are not prominent
etc" or that "you did not think about as"
or that otis all right it don't make any diff
ference; we are not mad about it ; no indeed,
only we thought you might maybe perhaps
and the more we determined to miss no one,
the more determined Fate grew, until finally
we got to publishing the names ofsomc who
objected to such mention and of others who